"We are very accustomed to their bluffing," said Myong Sool Chang, editor of the weekly newspaper. "This time, it's kind of another bluffing, but it's a big one."

Their current front page is dominated by a photo of Kim Jung Un and his threats tolaunch a missile. But inside the small newsroom reporters calmly reject the idea despite having many family members in South Korea.

Chang himself received a text Monday night from his wife, currently traveling in Seoul with their children to visit family.

She said they had just received an emergency alert warning of possible action by North Korea as well as a warning from Pyongyang telling Chinese tourists to leave because their safety couldn't be guaranteed.

"Oh really?" Chang gasped when he first read the text from his wife. "I was scared at the time, but (then) I searched Korean news through the internet."

He said his research calmed him down. The threat, he concluded, should not be taken too seriously, something many South Koreans also believe, according to MIT/Harvard Kennedy School Nuclear Security Expert John Park.

"Gallup Korea came out with a poll and 96% of South Koreans have not made any type of extra precautions," said Park. "This is in direct contrast to the 1994 period when North Korea threatened to turn Seoul, South Korea into a sea of fire. That led to the emptying of shelves in supermarkets, stocking up of water, of instant noodles and so forth. But this time around we're not seeing that."

But Park acknowledges the real danger can't be ignored. The United States is watching closely a mobile missile unit that North Korea has moved to their east coast, he said. It has the capacity to reach Japan if launched.

"What the U.S. has done is deployed naval assets that have capabilities to track this with advance radar," said Park. "Ideally the interception would take place during the launch phase ... this would almost immediately go over the waters close to North Korea."

Meanwhile, back at the Allston weekly newspaper, the conflicted views of Boston's Korean community is reflected in Editor Chang's current dilemma. He is still debating what to put on this week's front page. The deadline is Thursday night. He's torn between another piece on North Korea or a story on Korean marathoners headed to Boston this weekend.

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